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3.00 Credits
Traces the roots of European interest in the exotic beginning in the 17th century, extending into the 20th century when the tendency becomes most fully realized. Course repertoire will draw on a full range of genres, including opera, song and instrumental music, as well as a variety of ethnographic recordings representing a selection of world cultures. The course will require working with examples of art forms other than music and with living folk and non-western repertoires, most of them un-notated. For independent research projects, students may choose among a variety of media and final products, including studies of 19th-century painting, transcription of recorded source material, original composition, and cultural studies. Prerequisite: MHST 111. (2 credits) Labaree
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A study of Beethoven's 32 piano sonatas, including analysis of their musical style and form and of the social-historical context in which they were composed and performed. Currently available scores of the sonatas will be evaluated and problems in performance examined. Grade will be based on listening quizzes, oral reports on individual sonatas, and a final project and paper on a topic to be chosen by the student. Prerequisite: MHST 111. (2 credits) Smith
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3.00 Credits
Studies the history, repertoire, performance practice, and cultural context of selected musical traditions. Music covered in the past has been drawn from traditions in sub-Saharan Africa, the Balkans, the Middle East, India, Indonesia, China, Korea, Native America, and Japan. Evaluation of student work is based on class participation, midterm exam, and final exam or term project and paper. Prerequisite: MHST 111. (2 credits) Labaree, Row
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3.00 Credits
The classical traditions of North and South India are explored extensively in their cultural contexts, focusing on instrumental and vocal styles, repertoires and improvisations with special reference to the concepts of raga (melodic mode) and tala (rhythm systems). Prerequisite: MHST 111. (2 credits) Row
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3.00 Credits
An introduction to the music of Turkey, with an emphasis on the classical and religious tradition. Through performance projects, recordings, transcriptions, analytical papers, and readings in history, practice and culture, students will explore the continuous tradition of composition and improvisation originating under the multiethnic Ottoman empire, which dominated the Middle East, North Africa and eastern Europe since the 14th century. A prominent feature of the course will be the development of an understanding of makam and usul, the systems of melodic and rhythmic composition. Prerequisite: MHST 111. (2 credits) Labaree
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3.00 Credits
This study of European polyphony focuses on four historic types dating from the 9th through the 18th centuries: 1) organum; 2) motet; 3) madrigal; and 4) basso continuo. The repertory of polyphony in these four types will be studied in its special notational languages and in its historical context using select pieces from the various periods. European works and practices will be compared with living oral traditions of polyphony in the Mediterranean (Sardinia, Corsica), the Balkans (Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Greece, Turkey), Africa (Liberia, Congo, South Africa) and Indonesia (Bali). Throughout the course, emphasis will be placed on polyphony as an essentially oral, performer-controlled practice. Students will occupy themselves primarily with the European repertoires, acquiring skill at reading early notation systems and transcribing performances from oral traditions. The non-European sources will serve primarily as points of comparison. By the end of the course, students should be able to recognize, by ear and in notation, the four European types and to discuss them as distinct technical and historic forms. Requirements: 1) an 8-page paper on assigned readings of the student's choice; 2) performance projects based on student transcriptions of either recorded non-European examples or early European notations; 3) midterm and final essay exams. Prerequisite: MHST 111. (2 credits) Labaree
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3.00 Credits
An intensive look at Purcell's Dido and Aeneas within the context of later 17thcentury opera. This half-semester class will focus on issues of performance practice, history of the work, and editorial problems. It will also consider recent, often provocative studies by Heller, Peraino, Harris, and Price. Live performance of excerpts will be part of the class. Written and oral project on a subject of the student's choice; listening exam. Prerequisite: MHST 111. (1 credit) Hallmark
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3.00 Credits
A study of Beethoven's only opera Leonora/Fidelio and of the social-cultural context in which it was composed and performed. The influence that the French Revolution and revolutionary music such as Cherubini's exercised on Beethoven will be considered in this half-semester course, as will the relationship between Fidelio and Viennese operatic traditions of Singspiel and opéra-comique. Grade based on in-class oral report, written essay on an assigned topic, listening quizzes. Prerequisite: MHST 111. (1 credit) Smith
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3.00 Credits
A close study of Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 ("Choral"). Through analysis of thscore and reading from the wealth of recent literature on the work, this halfsemester course examines the sources of the Symphony's enduring power of expression and studies the possible meanings embedded in its sounds. Grade based on in-class oral report, written essay on an assigned topic, listening quizzes. Prerequisite: MHST 111. (1 credit) Smith
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3.00 Credits
A study of Beethoven's monumental and idiosyncratic setting of the Latin mass. The work will be considered from the perspective of its musical style and form and of its place in the 18th-century tradition of sacred composition. Its relationship to masses by other Classical composers - Haydn and Mozart in particular - will be examined, as will the problems posed by sacred music in an age of secular Enlightenment. Grade based on in-class oral report, 2 written essays on assigned topics, and a listening quiz. Prerequisite: MHST 111 (1 credit) Smith
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